@see_it: "Jesus [41] The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (27)
Continuing our summary/review of Tom Wright and Marcus Borg's discussion...
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These brief excerpts are meant to provoke thought/reflection...
More from Marcus Borg:
'Truly I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death 
before they see the Kingdom of God come with power'... 'When they persecute 
you in one town, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you will not have 
gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes' (Mark 9:1, 
cf. Mark 1:15, which speaks of the nearness of the Kingdom; Matthew 10:23, 
cf. Mark 13:24-27)
[So] Jesus did not speak of his own second coming, but he did expect the 
immiment coming of the kingdom of God and the Son of Man. After his death, 
this expectation got transferred to the expectation of his immiment return 
as king of the kingdom that he had proclaimed.
Put most simply: Jesus expected the kingdom of God; the early church 
expected Jesus... The apocalyptic eschatology of early Christianity and the 
expectation of the second coming of Jesus emerge within the early Christian 
community after Easter.
This is my own position.' (p. 193).
[Note from Rowland: To be fair to Tom and Marcus I'm presenting their
summary-views before I offer some of my own... You'll have to *think* first,
and then wait for my appraisal].
Shalom!     Rowland Croucher
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Jesus DID speak of His own second coming, using the same dualism He gave the 
prophets before Him.
"For the time is coming, and is now..."
Used three times, in the same manner as Ezekiel says "there is an end, there 
is the end," to indicate His own dualism of contexts.
And yet, while the Kingdom has been growing since Pentecost, the revelation 
of the Kingdom accompanying the return of Jesus Christ has not yet happened.
And yet He didn't return then, a thing of which He specifically spoke.
Easter?
Easter is an unfortunate mistake made by an early translator.
It's Passover (or Seder), not "Easter."
Regardless, Jesus spoke of the restoration of the Kingdom to Israel just 
before His ascension, NOT just before His crucifixion and resurrection.
Too bad. It's wrong.
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